JORGE SAMPAOLI HAS confirmed he no longer wants to be Chile coach, but the exit clause in his contract appears set to delay the matter.
The Argentinian has struggled to explain his situation and earlier on Wednesday denied wanting to leave Chile.
In an interview with Fox Sports, Sampaoli — who has been linked with Brazilian and European clubs including Chelsea — said he was set to depart his role.
“It appears that I will not be Chilean coach anymore,” he said.
“I hope I can persuade (Football Federation of Chile president Arturo) Salah so he can understand my point.
“It is impossible for me to pay the clause.”
Sampaoli’s exit clause is reportedly $6.3million and the 55-year-old Copa America-winning coach said he just wanted to move on.
Salah and Sampaoli are set to meet on Thursday, but the latter said he had already explained his position.
“I have explained Salah that the conditions are not suitable for me to stay as Chilean coach,” Sampaoli said.
I love this positivity from Collins!
You can’t even beat Greece ffs
@john doe: They can barely beat Gibraltar at home.
I have nothing against this team and setup but it’s time to start concentrating on getting the grassroots and facilities up to standard i.e. concentrat on teams to come in the future.
@Stanley Marsh: To be fair, we put as many past Gibraltar as France, Netherlands and Greece did.
@Eoin McCarthy: oh wow. Another moral victory for us so. We’re as good as France.
Ffs
@Eoin McCarthy: Oh well, I take back everything I said then!!
WHOOSH!!!
@Stanley Marsh: 18 players given debuts,that’s for the future
@Larry Betts: Yes, but what kind of future in the short to medium term?
There is a bizarre scenario for us that to qualify for the play offs we need most of the teams ranked higher than us in the Nations league to qualify automatically through these qualifying groups. One of those teams is The Netherlands. So technically if they beat us it improves our chance of getting a play off.
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: whatever happened to just the top 2 qualifying.
What on earth is Kenny putting in the Irl teams drinking water ?
The latest extraordinary uttering has Collins saying that they can beat France.”Incredible”.
Judging by his performance on Monday,Collins would have difficulty getting in the Gibraltar side.
Kenny must be shown the door now. His tactical awareness is non existent,and leads his team up blind alleys.
Yes delusion is the name of the game by all at the
F A I.
Headless chickens come to mind.
Marc
@marc anders: what are you talking about? On one hand you are saying that the players shouldn’t have belief in themselves to get the best out of themselves and on the other hand you’re saying Collins wouldn’t get on the Gibraltar team.. which obviously isn’t even remotely true!
April fools day is long gone. Please be a great player that you are. Don’t talk like that Please. Chance came and went
Oh Holy mother…..
#positivity #delusional
they should have asked him before he got steamed up.
Technical yes we can
Realistically we won’t
It’s that easy sum up Irelands chances.
We shouldn’t be trying to “Nick” a result from anyone
Stop it. Please.